| Summary: | Page 2 THE CONCORDIAN September 29, 1950* Editorially. CONGRATULATIONS, QUEEN NORMA Congratulations to Queen Norma Grant I and attendants Rachael Reinertson and Jeannine Anderson. Students proudly bow as your loyal subjects for the 1950 Home-coming. OUR PRIVILEGES AND HUMAN NATURE Human nature is such, even among Cobbers, that we tend to ignore those things in life called privileges. Yet, if we were to scratch the surface of our everyday life here at Concordia, we'd discover that the privileges are many and varied for each of us. Next Tuesday evening begins another in the series of ten week Bible study hours. These studies which are led by instructors at LBI, have become an important part of the college year. Students who have taken the time to attend these study hours in previous years, know that it's a privi-lege offered equally to every Cobber. Human nature could be such that we'll see our need for a spiritual growth and gladly accept the privilege to study God's word. ENCOURAGING SIGN Glancing down to the bottom of this page, you'll see the new additions to the masthead. The larger staff makes for a healthy looking paper and the editors smile and look for a good year. Although Concordia offers no definite program in jour-nalism, the enthusiasms and work shown by Concordian re-porters and workers is exceptional. The field is open for journalists of a Christian college, not only with commercial newspapers, but with news work in our church. Perhaps, the latter has been overlooked. Perhaps this makes the masthead look more encouraging. AN IDEA SPREADS Things are happening on campus! There is a new Cobber enthusiasm quickly spreading to build Concordia pep and good will at our college games. The idea, begun by a small group, is still a kernel of possibility. Keep your ears and eyes open and wait for a chance to do your part—then make the results. (C. F.) Adventurous Student Provides Picturesque View Of Campus By Marlyce Jacobson Do you ever feel exceptionally adventurous? If so, has this basic desire for adventure moved you to leave your comfortable room and go out into the cold, hard world in search of new and exciting ex-periences? Are you the type of person that likes to live danger-ously? I do, it has and I am. Conse-quently, I decided to take a jaunt around the Concordia campus. Feeling ambitious I strolled past the Science hall to the site of our new gymnasium. I final-ly located the foundation amidst many piles of dirt. After five mi-nutes of detailed inspection I walked back to the more scenic part of our campus. After I had made three trips to Fjelstad with my mail, I stopped at Amy's cafeteria for a little snack. Conforming to an habitual practice, I studied the menu: soup, potatoes, hot dish, hot dogs, vegetables, salads, cherry pie, cookies and cake, ice cream and Fred Ritvo. Poor, dear Fred! And he was such a nice chap, too. He must have gone quickly, but that's just like Fred—always in a hurry. Having finished my lunch I pro-ceeded to the library. Upon my entrance I noticed a freshman looking first one way and then the other. Being in a noble mood I asked if I could be of some as-sistance. "No, thank you," she replied. "I was just contemplating how pro-ficiently the scholars of this il-lustrious institution seek to ab-sorb the streams from the foun-tain of knowledge." "Yes," I asserted, as I attempted to pick up my tattered end of the conversation. "We Concordia stu-dents surely are a wet bunch, aren't we?" After stopping to inflate my ego, which had deflated some-what during the conversation, I scurried on my way. THE CONCORDIAN PublUbed weekly during the school year except during vacation, holiday and examina-tion periods by the students of Concordia College, Moor head. Entered as second class matter at the post office of Moor head, Minn., Dec. 9, 1920, under the Act of March 8, 1879. „ TEN TIMES ALL-AMERICAN Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS Office: Third floor of Classroom building Phone 8-1938 CO-EDITORS — MANAGING EDITOR NEWS EDITOR SOCIETY EDITOR DESK EDITOR COPY EDITOR FEATURE EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER , CIRCULATION MANAGER ADVERTISING MANAGER ASSISTANT ADVERTISING MANAGER ADVERTISING STAFF STAFF ASSISTANTS Morse and Allan H. Bjertness. Subscription Rate, 12.60 a year. Howard Wagner and Clarice Foss Crystal Severson Doris Benson Joan Thue Sally Ann Warner Albert Anderson Wilma Perila Robert Narveson Hans Dahl Jean Meier Ralph Hauger George Calhoan and Elden Mohr Marlene Hauger, Delphine Hedlund, Stanley FEATURE WRITERS Robert Amegard, Warren Smerud, Paul Solera, Alice Mac Young, Norma Grant, Marlyce Jacobson, Orville Sanderson, Hazel Lovdokken and Raymond Ramsey. STAFF ASSISTANTS Stanley Morse, Allan H. Bjertness and Roger Comeliusson REPORTERS Joyce Brendcn, Georgia Helgeson, Dale Huse, Nancy Moller, Joyce Spoon land, Audrey Helbfng, Ruth Rudser, Janet Steqson, Evelyn Dahl, Ralph Thrane, Eileen Vaughan, Maria Jean Peterson. Pat Gelder, Marjorie Podall, Ilia Mae Stevenson, Arlys Sommer, Sister Phyllis L*nen, Zora Houkom and Nonna Wlckstrum SPORTS WRITERS Richard Lund, Donald Sponheim, John Groven and Sigurd Randa CARTOONIST Joyce Elmquist MUSIC CRITIC Gerald Trett OOPY READERS Marlys Benson. Anita Gisvold and, Connie Void CIRCULATION STAFF Wlhna Ringen. Randf Langfeldt, Norma TveJt, Carole Berg and Charlanne Ward LIBRARIAN Lola Erickson STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS — Phil Frame, Carl Carlson and Norman Klein TYPISTS Dorothy Dem, Dorothy Hefele, Erlys Tweeton, Betty Lou Brecto, Margaret Paulson, Elsie Hoverstein and Dona Nustad ADVISER Prof. J. L. Rendahl Faces Can Reflect Despair Of Sin Or Joy Of Salvation By Montana Winters I met a girl once. She was pretty. I had dropped in to see her brother just in time for dinner. We finished eating . The girl reached for her cigarette case and offered me one. 'Thanks," I said, "I don't smoke." She looked at me a minute with pretty contempt in her eyes and then, "You must agree with this guy, then," she said as she shoved in front of me the book, "Abundant Living," by a well known contemporary. "He's off the beam!" Knowing that he was of a dif-ferent faith from mine I told her that perhaps I didn't agree with everything he had to say, but I encouraged her to tell me where she found him so stupid. "Why," she exclaimed, "he be-lieves in Adim and Eve and all the rest of it!" "Oh!" I said, "And why is that so stupid?" She went on to explain to me how science and religion com-pletely contradicted each other. "And," she concluded, "science is true, therefore religion must be false." I apologized to her for not be-ing aware of the fact that the two were irreconcilable opposites. I told her that as I understood it the two in no way • contradicted each other and that I did not re-gard something true as being ul-timate truth. She went on. She wasn't in-terested in becoming a Chris-tian anyway, she said. The lives of some of the people whom she had met who had professed Christianity had not appealed to her. They didn't even appear happy. I smiled. "You know," I said, "the Christian is the only one who is free and is happy." That startled her. She thought that I must be joking. "You mean Christians are free?" she asked. "You'll be free/' I told her, "free in the blood of Jesus Christ." But, she explained, it was hard for her to become a Christian be-cause she was intelligent. I had to apologetically unveil myself by telling her that I realized I was much less of a brain than she and therefore perhaps couldn't under-stand her particular problem. "Af-ter all," I added, "I don't think that Martin Luther had an I.Q. of more than 150." But I went on, I was glad she was intelligent, as intelligent peo-ple tended to thjnk things out and appreciate other people's point of view. That from what I had learn-ed of them they came to their deci- .sions after careful analysis of all possible conclusions. She was interested now so I continued. "You," I told her, "haven't known happiness. When you are a Christian you know what real joy means. You will be free to choose as you like, only you may not choose the same as before, because God has a way of filling: your heart with something new and greater to take the place of some of your old desires." "But the others I knew," she persisted, "they didn't seem hap-py. What about them?" "You perhaps didn't.understand them," I told her, "and besides, a sober face does not necessarily indicate a sober or a sad mind and heart, just as a smiling face is not always an outward manifestation of a happy heart. But, I con-tinued, "don't let them bother you. Seek the Lord and see for your-self if what I've told you isn't correct. And when you've found out, why not go back and help others out? Maybe they haven't discovered what Christianity is." We parted. I went and she stayed. t 3Beo Gloria By Norman E. Johnson Rom. 12:4-6 "For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function, so we, though many, are one body In Christ, and invldidually members one of another, having gifts that differ according to the grace given us, let us use them " Have you ever worked a jig-saw puzzle? Isn't it interesting to see the pieces fit together to form a picture or pattern of some sort? However, once in a while you find it difficult to locate the piece you are looking for. Oh yest it is possible to force one into place, but it will never fit very well and it would certainly distort the finished picture. You soon discover that each piece is special-ly made to go into a specific place to fulfill a specific part in the completion of the whole picture. Mankind can be likened to a jig-saw puzzle. Jesus has the master blueprint, for He created the pieces which fit together to form the completed picture. Man is trying to put the pieces together to find his spot In the overall picture. When he finds his place, he becomes a part of the picture. . Until then he is a misfit. Our Lord and Creator has endowed each one of us with those talents which we need so that we can become part of His King-dom. Just how do we look at our talents? Some of us get a false pride, a feeling that we are better than others because we can do more than they can. Some of us wonder at times why our neigh-bors are more "gifted" than we are. Neither of these should be of concern to us. As pointed out in our text we cannot all have the same function. Our chief concern should be whether or not we are using those talents that we have to the fullest extent. Can you sing? Can you play any musical Instrument? Can you speak? Can you teach? Can you help people in need? Can you study? These are all gifts of God, but in themselves they are worthless until they are put to use. If you will but admit It you cannot really enjoy the benefits of anything unless you share it with others. I Peter 4:10-11 puts it this way. "As each has received a gift, employ it for one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace, whoever speaks as one who utters oracles of God; whoever ren-ders it by strength which God supplies; in order that in every-thing God may be glorified through Jesus Christ." Amen. Local Friendliness And Spirit Welcomes New Cobber Girl By NORMA GRANT Concordia has numerous students of Norwegian ancestry, but we have one who is unique in that she has come directly to Concordia from Norway. This student is Sigrid Bunkholt, who left her home in Notodden, Telemark, Norway, on August 29. Sigrid is attending Concordia on a scholarship granted her by the American - Scandinavian Founda-tion and Conuocrida t .1S5 lyoyR tion and *Concordia College. Fol-lowing her graduation from high school—or the gymnasium, as Si-grid would say — she attended the University of Oslo during the past year. Sigrid had heard much of Con-cordia before coming to Moorhead. She had enjoyed hearing the Con-cordia Choir while it was in Nor-way and is a distant relative of Dr. J. N. Brown. Our new friend from Scandi-navia has two sisters and one brother back at her home in Nor-way. She has not had an oppor-tunity to be lonesome for them as she is too busy getting ac-quainted with her American friends and studies. Our Norwegian schoolmate finds life here quite different from that of her home at Not-odden, a city of 7,000, or of the University of Oslo. Sigrid lives In the mountains whore there 1B much snow so she should enjoy our winter. She enjoys skiing. If first impressions are any in-dication, Sigrid will have a very enjoyable school year in the United States. We have the com-mon varieties of foods that are found in Norway in addition to more fruits. Following the com-pletion of her year of study here, she plans to return to the Uni-versity of Oslo to continue her studies in language and literature. Sigrid has •been impressed by the friendliness of the Cobbers and Christian spirit of our school. COBBER WIVES MEET MONDAY Cobber Wives will meet Mon-day in the lounge of the men's dorm at 8 p. m. Hostesses will be Mrs. George Calhoun, Mrs. Robert Erbstoesser and Mrs. Merlyn Runestad. This organization is composed of the wives of the mar-ried students on campus. TORVIK TO REPORT Phi Iota Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, National Music Sorority, will meet at the home of Mrs. W. S. Shaw, 1319 South 9th St., Far-go, Monday at 8 p.m. Borghild Torvik will report on the National convention held in Seattle, Wash., from June 26 6to July 1.
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